7:17 I am glad Chiefs won. I fell asleep for the end. Then was up until 2:30 or 3 am. Had to rush out to Walmart at about 8 pm. I needed cereal for breakfast, and Walmart is the only place I have found it. I always have Honey Nut Scooters for breakfast. I like to buy the big bags Walmart sells. A bag lasts at least a month, and maybe two.
Very nice this morning. It's 67 and cloud covered, but a gentle rain all night has stopped for now. Landscapers are grading a new yard out back of me on the next street. They have built a ground level patio with some steps off the existing raised enclosed porch. Which, oddly, did not provide access to the back yard. Weird. Was the very last house to be permanently occupied, and changed hands before it was even completed. I should have poked my nose into what was going on. I will someday ask the history from a neighbor over there.
My favorite example of gouging is Campbells Chicken Noodle soup. They were profiting at $.75 a can for quite a while. Then went to $2,00 or even more for a while. Then for about a year you could find it on sale for $1.00 a can.
Now it seems to have been decided to keep it at $1.25. That is still too high. $1.00 is a 33 1/3% raise. Inflation is 2%, and even at it's worst was 7 or 8 %. That means that Campbells Soup Company is gouging us at a rate of between +67% and +167%. They aught to be ashamed of themselves.
The saddest part is that this is just one example of the thousands of gouging price increases being forced on us by CEOs just to make Biden and Harris look bad in our eyes. It is true that they are making obscene excess profits, but that is really secondary to their real motive. Don't be fooled. Leave the high priced stuff on the shelf. The price will come down when the demand which we control, is gone.
Well now I will put away my soapbox, and enjoy the misty rain that has restarted. It has chased away the constant drone of the landscapers Bobcat grader. How nice and peaceful it is. I love a rainy day. Plus the seven day outlook is rainy too.
GBU EV1 and GB Ukraine, Israel, and those suffering.